Rhodes v. Rhodes

MILLER, Associate Justice.

Appellant (plaintiff below) filed a bill ‘in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, praying that his marriage to appellee (defendant below), celebrated on November 17, 1915, in the State of Massachusetts, be declared null and void. Two grounds in support of the relief sought are set out in the bill. The first was founded upon the alleged fact that appellant was induced “to go through a form of marriage ceremony” with appellee by fraudulent representations which she made to him, namely, “that she was an unmarried woman and had never been…